Dancing Life:

Waves Studio offers the possibility of living the 5Rhythms as a physical and spiritual approach to life. We return again and again to the dance floor on which we pour our lives into our dance. Doing this, we discover our dance as a source of guidance and inspiration for our lives. The 5Rhythms is a physical and spiritual practice into which we can pour our dreams, our prayers, and our troubles, putting the pieces of who we are into motion, where the pieces can re-form, where we can heal.

In the dance, we tap into these 5Rhythms of humanity, and moving through our Wave we physically dance ourselves into our bodies, dropping our emotional bodies into our physical center, engaging our whole bodymind. We practice being fully human, relaxing into our humanity and the beautiful presence and wisdom that arrives with this deep acceptance of ourselves and each other.

The 5Rhythms is not about enlightenment of the mind, but about embodiment of our selves, and connection to this profound world we live upon. We are awakening and re-claiming an aliveness and love of this one life we are given to live, in our dance, on the dance floor. And we are infusing our whole lives with our connection to our own unique dance.
Our dance is simply larger than we are, and by pouring ourselves into something larger than our individual self, we are always received. This discovery allows this dance practice to be a guiding life practice, where every time we return to the dance floor, we put our lives into motion, finding wholeness and connection to ourselves and the world we live within. As we pour our lives into our dance, finding our feet over and over, we practice becoming free human beings.

Humanity is larger than our individual selves, and it is this humanity that we access when we move our bodies. This practice is inclusive; you can be an atheist or religious, frustrated or already free, broken or glued back together, artist, nurse, secretary or executive, yoga teacher, yoga student, therapist, in therapy, prisoner of love, pioneer in life, confused, nothing, everything. Your personality, your beliefs, your morality, your experiences are but a piece of the pie of your whole humanity. Your dance holds all of this, and more. Your dance holds all of you, always.

And the amazing thing is, we each do have our own dance, to discover, to live, to bring forth into the world. Each one of us. With Waves Studio, and in 5Rhythms classes and workshops around the globe, we gather to practice being ourselves, living life fully, loving life deeply, on the dance floor, in the dance.
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